Roe v. Wade should be overturned

Roe v. Wade is a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision which established abortion as a constitutional right guaranteed by the 14th amendment. By making it a constitutional right, the court's decision made abortion generally legal across the entire U.S. and has forbidden state and federal legislators (as well as governors and presidents) from blocking access to abortion.

Roe v. Wade can be overturned by a majority of the Supreme Court or by a constitutional amendment. Some federal legislators and presidential candidates have said they would appoint Supreme Court justices who would be likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, and some have also supported constitutional amendments which overturn Roe v. Wade, either by returning the decisions to legislators or by making abortion illegal outright.

Meanwhile, divorce rates and teen pregnancy rates both rose with the abortion rate and then fell with it from the early 1990s onward — which, again, is not exactly the pattern you’d expect if abortion-on-demand was a major boon to the two-parent household, and pro-life sentiment a significant driver of family breakdown.

As they have since Roe v. Wade was first handed down in 1973, this year Americans from all walks of life are stepping forward to speak out for the unborn. I salute all Ohioans who are traveling from Ohio to Washington this week to stand and march.

The historic Roe V. Wade case changed the course for protecting women’s healthcare and personal freedom for generations to come. Four decades later, the majority of Americans support the premise of this decision; a woman should have the right to choose whether or not to have abortion.

The gift of life is a precious, sacred blessing. It is heartbreaking that approximately 1.2 million innocent lives have been lost per year for the past 40 years since Roe v. Wade. It is my prayer and commitment to continue pushing for laws and legislation that promise to save the precious lives of the very most vulnerable who are entrusted to our care.

However, much work remains to protect the sanctity of innocent life, and I have worked with my colleagues in both parties to bring pro-life legislation to the floor and advance the rights of the unborn.

As members of Congress, we carry a responsibility and duty to protect those who do not have a voice. As our fourth president and architect of our Constitution, James Madison, once warned, the rights of the minority must be protected. The unborn children of America represent our greatest silent minority. They are the most innocent amongst us, and deserve the protection we afford all other people in this great country.

Despite knowing the key to a lower abortion rate, the so-called "pro-life" movement refuses to use it. Instead, they feign concern for babies while doing absolutely nothing to help children and everything in their power to make women's lives harder and more dangerous if those women dare to believe that they're entitled to a fulfilling sex life.

Forty years ago, the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade established fundamental principles in American life and society: that reproductive freedom must be protected; that the right to privacy must be preserved; and that a woman’s health decisions must be her own, in consultation with her family, her physician, and her faith.

We cannot know how many inventors, musicians, scientists, athletes, physicians, and entrepreneurs were never allowed to breathe their first breath of life. We cannot know the medical cures, artistic masterpieces, thriving businesses, and life-transforming charities that never came into existence.

In order to combat the heinous injustice of abortion, we must renew our commitment to communicate the real impact of abortion, improve education, expand adoption opportunities and prenatal care as well as help to strengthen families and advance anti-abortion legislation.

God gives humankind dominion over the entirety of the world he has created. It’s a tremendous responsibility. Remember, after each act of creation God describes his work “good.” Far from being a self-empowering thing, dominion means service. The best word to encapsulate the responsibility is probably “stewardship.

...a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.

For many women here in the United States, these basic rights are out of reach. That’s why Trust Women will expand abortion care and maternal health care to tens of thousands of women by opening more clinics.

look forward to working hand-in-hand with women’s health groups and women’s rights advocates to stand up for the choices and privacy all American women deserve and that, according to the Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade, our Constitution guarantees.

Roe vs. Wade remains one of the major victories for the pro-choice movement in this country. It was an epic game changer that gave women the legal authority to make their own reproductive decision as to whether or not they wanted to complete their pregnancy.

We know that whether we will live to see victory over abortion is not in our hands. We also know that standing for truth, for mercy, and for justice is always within our power, and so we will keep doing it for as long as the evil endures.